The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-09
STATE POLITICS.

BlaQuemIneB OOSoTO6f' Liz 4 tC0-
yune's principle seems to be, ''keep on
claiming EN-, whether we got EN- or
not"
Thibodaux Sentinel: The innocent
individuals who will cut out the Plea
yune's ''Nicholl's Column" and paste
it in their hats, either to give them
comfort or enable them to base calcu-
lations ON bets, will be the worst cleft"
set of fellows in creation.
Desoto Democrat: The wonderful
fabrications, published in the Pea
yune, giving such glaringly false &C.
count of the mass meeting in this
place, has disguised even the Nichols
men, and they generally denounce the
report as an outrageous misrepresonta-
ton.
Louisiana Democrat: Gov. McEn-
cry has not been blamed as yet for the
granting of new trial to Ex-SecretRry
Of State W. A. Strong or the burning
of Barnum'B big show at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, oil" the 2Ist inst. To say the
least the "reformerB' are growing more
and more liberal every day.
N. 0. States: St. Martin held q
mass meeting Sunday to elect dele
gates to the State nominating conven-
ton at Baton Rouge. The McEnery
men were in the majority, and the re-
suit was the election of six McEnery
delegates was made unanimous on the
motion of Mr.. Fornet, the leader of
the Nichols faction.
Rayne Signal: Saturday last was
a cold day for Reform, in fact SO ex-
tremely cold that it froze the fingers
of the Pieayune's lightning calculator.
The PicayWne has abandoned that tab
Mated statement showing the steady
advance of the "Nicholls column" be-
cause it made a very sudden move in
the wrong direction.
Donaldsonville Chief: The services
of Major Burke to Louisiana and the
South at large should have universal
recognition, irrespective of his attitude
in the gubernatorial contest, and the
paper which seeks to dim the lustre Of
his achievements and throw mud al
him because he prefers Gov. McEnery
to Gen. Nichols does no credit to it,
self or the cause it represents.
RiohIand Beacon: Did it ever oo.
cur to those who have so much to say
about third term and two term that
Gen. Nichols has been Governor once
by election and McEnery has beer
Governor once by election. Bott
having been elected only one time a.
Governor. Of course McEnery served
the unexpired term Of Gov. Wilt, but
was not the Governor elect at thai
time.
Thibodaux Sentinel: As Genera
Nichols has lost every parish to dat'
where he appeared on the eve of the
primaries or mass meetings held fol
the selection of delegates, our Assump
ton friends as well as those of oul
own parish may consider it a goot
augury that he has considered it nee
essary to again crate 1.-THE same speed
all the time) to the people of thesr
two parishes.
Opelousas Courier We are glat
to see that some of the reform paper
decline to sanction the high-handet
proceedings of the Nichols manager
in certain parishes which the Picayun
unblushlngly claims for its candidate
Referring to the bare-faced outrag
perpetrated by Nichols supporter
on the Moncure men in Webster parish
The Arcadia advance says: "GIve u
defeat and honor, rather than such
victory as our friends won in MindeI
last Monday"
Terrebonne advocate: The Plea
y~ne says in speaking of the election
in Acadia, that the Nichols men con
cede the parish to McEnery and aver
that they will always concede what
ever can be won. The only reasol
why there was no contest in Acadi
was because not a single delegat,
could be found corrupt enough t
carry out the crooked work whici
Judge Walter Rogers acting under il
struCtions from the Nichols Campaig
Committee had mapped out.
The McEnery campaign speaker
are making telling and effeetiv
speeches wherever they 60, and neve
fail to awaken lively enthusiasm. Th
acts of Gov. McEnery's excellent al
ministration speak for themselves i
thunder tones, and when presented
the people by such able and patriotl
speakers as are championing his r,
/ election never fail to meet a heart
response from the mass of the peopl
who appreciate true merit and pair
otto motives. The persecution by th
y Reformers is only increasing the larg
majority that will be given our worth
governor when the nominating Coz
yention meets on the 10th of lamar,
New Orleans Daily States: .Th
Nichols column, like the mont
of March, started in as robustly as
: lion and is playing out as meekly as
I lamb. That was brilliant move
which the esteemed raformers rushe
their dead sure parishes to the frol
: with view of making q great displa
!, of strength. Tt deceived no one, hoV